Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh

Birthday: 1894-11-07

Place of Birth: Madrid, New Mexico Territory , USA

Biography: Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh, November 9, 1894 – February 13, 1968) was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.

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For the Son of the House
For the Son of the House

In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist ...

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

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The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

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Green Grass of Wyoming
Green Grass of Wyoming

The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare....

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Impact
Impact

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...

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The Avenging Conscience
The Avenging Conscience

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as ...

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I Am Not a Racist
I Am Not a Racist

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of t...

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Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....

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3 Godfathers
3 Godfathers

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...

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The School Teacher and the Waif
The School Teacher and the Waif

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her...

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Quiet Please, Murder
Quiet Please, Murder

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich...

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Deep Waters
Deep Waters

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard....

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The Escape
The Escape

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partn...

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While the City Sleeps
While the City Sleeps

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"....

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Thunder in the Valley
Thunder in the Valley

The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs...

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The Fighting Kentuckian
The Fighting Kentuckian

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand...

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Julie
Julie

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband....

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Life in Hollywood No. 4
Life in Hollywood No. 4

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

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The Beloved Traitor
The Beloved Traitor

Wanting her sweetheart, Judd Minot, a Maine fisherman, to develop his sculpting talents, Mary Garlan...

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The Face in the Dark
The Face in the Dark

Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor...

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Two Daughters of Eve
Two Daughters of Eve

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story ...

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An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods

Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true ...

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Love in an Apartment Hotel
Love in an Apartment Hotel

In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's ...

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Broken Ways
Broken Ways

In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After se...

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Near To Earth
Near To Earth

This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger bro...

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Fighting Blood
Fighting Blood

After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels w...

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Young People
Young People

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un...

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Moonshine Molly
Moonshine Molly

Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing ...

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Judith of Bethulia
Judith of Bethulia

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Je...

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Girls in Prison
Girls in Prison

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they belie...

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Mother Wore Tights
Mother Wore Tights

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to a...

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The Marriage of Molly-O
The Marriage of Molly-O

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family b...

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting i...

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The Old Actor
The Old Actor

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is...

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Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quick...

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The New York Hat
The New York Hat

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...

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The Tender Hearted Boy
The Tender Hearted Boy

A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness....

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The Perfidy of Mary
The Perfidy of Mary

Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic ag...

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The White Rose
The White Rose

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge o...

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A Beast at Bay
A Beast at Bay

A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new ...

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The Lesser Evil
The Lesser Evil

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smuggl...

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The Sands of Dee
The Sands of Dee

A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day ...

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Brute Force
Brute Force

A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignore...

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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...

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Polly of the Circus
Polly of the Circus

When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hart...

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Ramona
Ramona

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with t...

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Little Man, What Now?
Little Man, What Now?

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband...

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Smoky
Smoky

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the own...

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The Rat
The Rat

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her sl...

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A Voice from the Deep
A Voice from the Deep

Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing....

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Over the Hill
Over the Hill

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac...

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Fort Apache
Fort Apache

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...

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Daddies
Daddies

A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for ado...

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Tides of Passion
Tides of Passion

In a small Nova Scotia, Canada, fishing village, Charity Byfleet marries William Pennland, a romanti...

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By Man's Law
By Man's Law

An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j...

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His Mother's Son
His Mother's Son

The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the...

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Brutality
Brutality

An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does...

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His Lesson
His Lesson

This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his cha...

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The Cinderella Man
The Cinderella Man

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. ...

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All Woman
All Woman

Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be ...

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The Racing Strain
The Racing Strain

Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly ba...

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Leave Her to Heaven
Leave Her to Heaven

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy i...

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Man's Genesis
Man's Genesis

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a wom...

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Swanee River
Swanee River

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls ...

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It Happens Every Spring
It Happens Every Spring

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets ou...

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The Mother and the Law
The Mother and the Law

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic ...

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Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors ...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Ben...

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Dixie Dugan
Dixie Dugan

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol...

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The Moon Is Down
The Moon Is Down

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a J...

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Sergeant Rutledge
Sergeant Rutledge

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white w...

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A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Ariz...

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Drums Along the Mohawk
Drums Along the Mohawk

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the M...

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The Meanest Man in the World
The Meanest Man in the World

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is un...

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It's Everybody's War
It's Everybody's War

Wartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the Secon...

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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

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Three Friends
Three Friends

Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew th...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home
When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

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The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...

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My Darling Clementine
My Darling Clementine

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of thei...

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Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...

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The Sun Shines Bright
The Sun Shines Bright

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involve...

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The Man in the Trunk
The Man in the Trunk

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer....

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Blue, White, and Perfect
Blue, White, and Perfect

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get ...

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Great Guns
Great Guns

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nel...

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Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...

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It Happened in Flatbush
It Happened in Flatbush

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is...

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Donovan's Reef
Donovan's Reef

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the hei...

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The Life of General Villa
The Life of General Villa

Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both ...

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The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict....

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The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation....

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Swamp Water
Swamp Water

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with t...

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Everybody Does It
Everybody Does It

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her...

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Two Rode Together
Two Rode Together

Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages....

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A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away wi...

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Hell on Frisco Bay
Hell on Frisco Bay

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeer...

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Just Off Broadway
Just Off Broadway

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murd...

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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life....

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Belle Starr
Belle Starr

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam...

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Remember the Day
Remember the Day

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him ...

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My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a ch...

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Night Without Sleep
Night Without Sleep

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a...

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Prince of Players
Prince of Players

This biopic follows the story of Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth and his rise to fame. Edwin's caree...

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Daisy Kenyon
Daisy Kenyon

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but ...

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The Searchers
The Searchers

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation ...

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Fate
Fate

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers o...

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Lena and the Geese
Lena and the Geese

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who...

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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
The Telephone Girl and the Lady

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film...

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Titanic
Titanic

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her ...

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Arabella
Arabella

A foal runs away from its native pasture, falls into a swamp and is rescued by the circus dancer Ara...

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A Temporary Truce
A Temporary Truce

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the...

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The Robe
The Robe

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...

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The Little Tease
The Little Tease

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost g...

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The Reformers
The Reformers

Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that ...

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For Beauty's Sake
For Beauty's Sake

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang o...

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Sunshine Alley
Sunshine Alley

In the poorest section of the city lives Nell, who spends her days at her grandfather's bird store, ...

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The Wanderer
The Wanderer

A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph s...

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That's My Boy
That's My Boy

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern Califo...

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A Child of the Paris Streets
A Child of the Paris Streets

When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in ...

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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...

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Nobody's Kid
Nobody's Kid

Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Fol...

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A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harb...

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The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...

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A Lodging for the Night
A Lodging for the Night

Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two ...

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The Tall Men
The Tall Men

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas t...

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Paddy The Next Best Thing
Paddy The Next Best Thing

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love....

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Flames of Passion
Flames of Passion

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given...

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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loa...

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Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Manhattan

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...

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Black Fury
Black Fury

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and manage...

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Home Folks
Home Folks

Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to b...

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Till We Meet Again
Till We Meet Again

Swindler Arthur Montrose has tricked Marion Bates into getting committed to an insane asylum, after ...

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The Bondage of Barbara
The Bondage of Barbara

The Bondage of Barbara is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn....

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A Wild Girl of the Sierras
A Wild Girl of the Sierras

A teenage girl lives with two grizzly bears in a cave in the California Sierras and plays with rabbi...

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The Little 'Fraid Lady
The Little 'Fraid Lady

Cecelia Carne, dubbed "the little 'fraid lady" because she shuns society, seeks the solitude of the ...

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